Senior Director, Product Engineering

Overview:

The Senior Director, Product Engineering leads multiple engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-impact product solutions aligned with Nerdy’s strategic objectives. This leader drives technical vision, operational excellence, and cross-functional alignment while building high-performing, inclusive teams. The role is responsible for translating business strategy into measurable engineering outcomes across complex product portfolios.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. 

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

• AI-Native at every level
  From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocity
  Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
• Free-market rigor
  Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full-stack ownership
  You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contribution
  Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
• Relentless exploration
  Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
• Is Apolitical
  You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Q4-2025 Shareholder Letter 
• Q3-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q2-2025 Shareholder Letter

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and senior leaders
• Proven experience leading large, distributed product engineering organizations in a high-growth environment
• Strong track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
• Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and influence executive-level strategy
• Deep understanding of modern software development practices, cloud architectures, and DevOps principles
• Experience driving organizational design, change management, and operational transformation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Data-driven decision-making mindset with strong business acumen
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the long-term technical and organizational strategy for multiple product engineering teams
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Business leaders to align roadmaps with company objectives
• Drive delivery excellence through strong execution frameworks, predictable planning, and measurable outcomes
• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering leadership teams, including Direc